Commercial Assignment Guidelines

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Commercial Assignment Guidelines

• Stay on Task
• Both partners must use video camera and video
  program.
• Videos must be take in the room or just outside
  the door. Ask the instructor for quiet when you
  are shooting.
• You need permission to use the hallway.
• Any misbehavior or loudness in the hallway will
  result in you being asked to come inside the room
  for the rest of the class.
• REMOVE ALL VIDEOS FROM CAMERA WHEN YOU ARE
  FINISHED WITH THE CAMERA.

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Commercial Assignment

• Step 1 Original Commercial
• Erase everything in your Video 1 File except your
  final video.
• Find a Commercial on the internet.
• Get the approval of the Facillitator before going
  on to step 3.
• Download the original commercial for comparison
  using You Tube Downloader.
• Download original into I-Movie

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Step 2 - Storyboard

1. Enter each clip on a storyboard and plan how you
   will tape it. Follow directions on Storyboard.
2. Make sure the clips add up to exactly 30 45
   or 60 seconds. (Length of the original
   commercial). Each clip showuld be the same
   length as the original.
3. Identify the type of shot and type of angle on
   the bottom of the storyboard. There must be a
   minimum of 7 clips in the commercial.
4. WRITE OUT THE SCRIPT on your Storyboard.
5. Get the Storyboard approved by facilitator before
   continuing with step 3. Get approval for each
   set of clips you will shoot at one time.

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Step 3. Videotaping and Editing

• 1. Videotape the first 3 clips. Make the clips
  longer than necessary. You will edit them later.
  Download the clips into I Movie.
• 2. Add transitions special effects and any
  other components needed to make it match the
  original.
• 3. Use the delete function to shorten or edit any
  clips that are longer than planned.
• 4. Continue on until the commercial is completed.
  The commercial must be exactly 30, 45, or 60
  seconds in length depending on original
  commercial.
• 5. Remember, take all the clips of one
  person on the same day unless you want to wear
  the same clothes each day.

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Step 4. Finishing Your Commercial

• 12. Put a title at the beginning and make it run
  for 15 seconds. Add all of your groups first
  and last names.
• Add credits at the end.
• Go to Share function and save the video to your
  desktop as a Quicktime Video.

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Final Product for Commercial

• Title with first and last names and the name of
  the file that the video folder can be found. 15
  seconds
• Title for Original Commercial.
• Original Commercial 30 -45-60 exactly
• 4. Title for Remake
• 5. Remade Commercial same length as
• original.
• 6. Credits include the name of the file that
  it
• is in.